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Sep 26, 2020 Week: 39 Day: 270 Local: H 80°
\ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts: 14mph
Nearest lightning: 845mi.; active fire: 59mi.
EXTREME Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 84°[1899] Record: 22°[1934] Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Twenty years
from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by
the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor,
catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore, Dream,
Discover." -Mark Twain
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Random
Tidbits
Blood is thicker than water
You
probably think this means you should always put family ahead of friends. In
fact, it originally may have meant the opposite. The full maxim was “The blood
of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” with covenant referring
to friendship. In other words, it was your friends—your blood brothers, if you
will—who were with you through thick and thin
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A little
humor
How many dentists does it take to change a
lightbulb?
One to administer the anesthetic, one to extract the lightbulb, and one to
offer the socket mouthwash.
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Observations
This Week
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Nat’l Farm
& Ranch Safety/Health Week: 20-26 |
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National
Ballroom Dance Week: 18-27 Link |
National
Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week: 20-26 |
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Build
A Better Image Week: 20-26 |
National
Indoor Plant Week: 20-26 |
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Child Passenger Safety Week: 20-26 Link |
National
Rehabilitation Awareness Week: 20-26 |
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Deaf Dog Awareness Week: 20-26 Link |
National
Singles Week: 20-26 |
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International
Clean Hands Week: 20-26 |
Prostate
Cancer Awareness Week: 20-26 |
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International Interpreters and Translators Week: 20-26 |
Tolkien
Week: 20-26 |
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International Women's E-Commerce Days: 20-26 |
World
Reflexology Week: 20-26 |
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National
Bike to Work Week: 21-27 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19 |
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National Employ Older Workers Week: 20-26 Link |
National
Love Your Files Week: 21-25 |
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International Sand Sculpting Championships : 25-10/4 Link Cancelled due
to COVID-19 |
Pollution
Prevention Week: 21-27 Link |
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Observations
for Today
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Compliance Officer Day Link |
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Fall Astronomy
Day Link |
National Key Lime Pie Day |
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Fish Amnesty Day |
National Public
Lands Day Link |
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Family Health and Fitness Day
USA |
Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of
Play Link |
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Forget-Me-Not Day Link |
R.E.A.D. in America Day |
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International Lace Day Link |
Responsible Dog Ownership Day Link |
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International Day For The Total
Elimination of Nuclear Weapons |
Save Your Photos
Day Link |
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Seat Check
Saturday Link |
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Shamu the Whale Day |
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National Dumpling Day Link |
Situational
Awareness Day Link |
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National Ghost Hunting
Day: 26 Link |
World Contraception
Day Link |
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A nice Friday with a slight breeze. Great day for a walk.
The massive rescue of Whales who beached is continuing in Australia.
Worthwhile work for sure.
Today is Native American Day, also know as American Indian Day.
Back when I was working in Tuba, I worked on a committee of Bureau employees
that set up a parade, a 10k race, an Native Art Show, and Native dances all
around Tuba. It was a great experience. We never charged any fees to participants
or spectators. All the work was voluntary. It was a great experience.
I have never been a fan of Wells Fargo. I had a small account
while working in Tuba. Very dissatisfied with their customer relations. I wasn’t
surprised when the CEO announced in a meeting and later in an email that they
couldn’t find qualified Black candidates for high up positions. Living on the
Rez, they found plenty of brown, and I assume from the news, Black customers
that they could set up secret credit card accounts. They were caught and paid
big.
I watched the ceremony at the Capital Rotunda for RGB. She is the
first Jewish person and the first female to lay in state there. Quite moving.
The former Playboy model Karen McDougal filed a defamation suit
against Fox alleging that Carlson slandered her during a December 2018 episode
of his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight." The network asked a judge to
dismiss the case, arguing that "Carlson's statements were not statements
of fact and that she failed adequately to allege actual malice. "The judge
agreed with Fox's premise, adding that the network "persuasively
argues" that "given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer
'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statements he
makes." Hmmm
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A boy is walking
down the road with a doctor.
While the boy is
the doctor’s son, the doctor isn’t the boy’s father.
Then who is the
doctor?
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Historical
Events
1665 Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die
throughout the previous week
1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practise
medicine
1933 – Gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI and
shouted out, “Don’t shoot, G-Men!”, which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1957 – West Side Story opened on Broadway.
1960 – Longest speech in UN history at 4 hours and 29 minutes, was
given by Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
1960 – American presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard
M. Nixon debate on live television and radio. Radio listeners said that Nixon
won, and television viewers gave the win the Kennedy.
1962 – The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS.
1964 – Gilligan’s Island premiered on CBS. Although scheduled for
the fourth season, CBS changed the hour-long Gunsmoke to Mondays, displacing
the 7 castaways.
1968 – Broadcast premiere of Hawaii Five-O on CBS
1969- The last Beatles album, Abbey Road, was released in the US.
1982 – At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert premiered,
in syndication
1984 President Reagan
vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1990 – The Motion Picture Association of America announced a new
rating of NC-17 to apply to adult films, replacing the “X” rating.
1995 – George magazine premiered, published by John F Kennedy Jr.
2007 Shinzō Abe formally ends his first term as Prime Minister of
Japan
2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to
fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2017 World's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi
La Rona", sells for $53m
2019 US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in
California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new
census figures
2019 WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated
in nine days in worlds's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500
lives
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Birthdays
Today
@96 – Jack
LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)
@76 – T.S. Eliot,
English poet, playwright critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
@74 – Julie
London, American singer, and actress (d. 2000; stroke)
72 – Olivia Newton-John,
singer
@70 – Johnny
Appleseed, American gardener, and environmentalist (d. 1845)
58 – Melissa Sue
Anderson, American-Canadian actress
@57 – Marty
Robbins, American singer-songwriter, actor (d. 1982; heart disease)
@38 – George
Gershwin, American pianist, composer (d. 1937; glioblastoma)
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Puzzle
Answer
The doctor is the
boy’s mother.
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